The siege of Boonesborough was a military engagement which took place in September 1778 during the American Revolutionary War. On September 7, Shawnee...
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Boonesborough or Boonesboro is an unincorporated community in Madison County, Kentucky, United States. Founded by famed frontiersman Daniel Boone in 1775...
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Kentucky County, Virginia (redirect from District of Kentucky)
major battles of the War occurred during its existence including the siege of Boonesborough, siege of Logan's Fort, and Bird's invasion of Kentucky. Other...
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Daniel Boone (category Members of the Virginia House of Delegates)
Americans. He founded Boonesborough, one of the first English-speaking settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains. By the end of the 18th century, more...
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Fort Boonesborough was a frontier fort in Kentucky, founded by Daniel Boone and his men following their crossing of the Kentucky River on April 1, 1775...
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Richard Callaway (category House of Burgesses members)
justice of the peace and made colonel of the county's militia. Callaway was a defender during the Siege of Boonesborough. He disagreed with some of Boone's...
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Black Hoof (category Native American people of the Indian Wars)
part in the Siege of Boonesborough in 1778, which was led by Chief Blackfish, as well as the subsequent defense of the Shawnee village of Chillicothe...
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David McCallum (category Naturalized citizens of the United States)
Keith McCallum was born on 19 September 1933 in Glasgow the second of two sons of orchestral violinist David Fotheringham and Dorothy McCallum (née Dorman)...
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ISBN 978-0-393-24574-5. Chidsey, Donald Barr (1966). The siege of Boston; an on-the-scene account of the beginning of the American Revolution. Internet Archive. New...
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constructed a wooden cannon used in the defense of Boonesborough, Kentucky in 1778 Siege of Boonesborough. Wooden cannons were used in Europe on various...
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Sitting Bull; the siege of Boonesborough; the capture of Jefferson Davis; the life and death of Wild Bill Hickok; and the Battle of New Orleans. Among...
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Squire Boone (category American explorers of North America)
settlement of Boone's Station (present-day Boonesborough). In Spring 1779, after the siege of Boonesborough, where Squire had a rifle ball cut out of his shoulder...
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Blackfish (Shawnee leader) (category People of Kentucky in the American Revolution)
was launching a siege of the Kentucky settlement of Boonesborough, which commenced in September of that year. The siege of Boonesborough was unsuccessful...
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Indian Reserve (1763) (category History of United States expansionism)
Larger conflicts in the Western theater of the American Revolutionary War begin with the Siege of Boonesborough in which Daniel Boone is initially captured...
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of military confrontations that have occurred within the boundaries of the modern US State of Kentucky since European contact. The region was part of...
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States Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 Siege of Boonesborough, September 7–18, 1778 Battle of Blue Licks, 1782 Treaty of Paris, September 3...
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considered politically incorrect stereotypes of Native Americans. These episodes are "Siege of Boonesborough", "Pokey's Price", "Gold Rush Gumby", "Indian...
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Shawnee under Chief Blackfish, who then captured Daniel Boone in the Siege of Boonesborough in 1778. Beaubien preceded Lt-Governor Henry Hamilton as a scout...
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Battle of Johnstown (October 25, 1781) Siege of Fort Henry (September 1777) Siege of Boonesborough (September 7, 1778 – September 18, 1778) Siege of Fort...
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Lura Harris Craighead (category Daughters of the American Revolution people)
most valiant defenders of Boonesborough, especially in the Duquesne Siege, 1778, killed by Indians in ambush, March, 1780; of Robert and Mourning (Glenn)...
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Hugh McGary (category American people of the Northwest Indian War)
thirty families that came with Daniel Boone on his second expedition to Boonesborough through the Cumberland Gap. Mary Buntin brought the first Bible into...
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colonists remained in Kentucky, primarily at the fortified settlements of Boonesborough, Harrodsburg, and Logan's Station. In December 1776, Pluggy was killed...
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George M. Bedinger (category Members of the Kentucky House of Representatives)
Meanwhile, his father Henry moved the rest of his family to Kentucky in 1779, and settled at Boonesborough. During the American Revolutionary War, George...
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to Kentucky. The 200 mile road the trailblazer built ended at Fort Boonesborough (or Boone's Station) on the Kentucky River where Colonel Daniel Boone...
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Chalahgawtha (category Pre-statehood history of Ohio)
American Revolutionary War. After Chief Blackfish unsuccessfully besieged Boonesborough, Kentucky in 1778, Americans crossed the Ohio River and attacked Chillicothe...
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Richard Gentry (category American people of English descent)
at the Siege of Yorktown. His father was also "wealthy in lands and slaves" and owned a plantation in Kentucky. Young Richard grew up a child of the frontier...
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unknown where Coburn and Boone first met, Coburn's name is on the Ft. Boonesborough Memorial as he was documented as a visitor to the fort in the original...
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George Washington and Jefferson National Forests (category National forests of Kentucky)
Forests into one of the largest areas of public land in the Eastern United States. The forests cover 1.8 million acres (2,800 sq mi) of land in the Appalachian...
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Isaac Shelby (category Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives)
Cumberland River. Shelby returned to Kentucky in April 1783, settling at Boonesborough. He married Susannah Hart on April 19, 1783; the couple had eleven children...
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David Glenn (pioneer) (category American people of Scotch-Irish descent)
settlement in Kentucky, being it was settled almost a full year before Boonesborough. Throughout the Revolutionary War, David Glenn served as a hunter and...
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